SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 61 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -26 +55
Contract jobs citing SAP 86 63 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.77% 3.51% 5.47%
As % of the Vendors category 8.61% 7.16% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 71
10th Percentile £361 £363 £450
25th Percentile £520 £453 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £694
90th Percentile £825 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £523 £600
% change year-on-year +14.83% -12.92% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.93 -
25th Percentile - £30.15 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
75th Percentile - £52.96 £148.75
90th Percentile - £59.43 -
Central London median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
% change year-on-year - -71.97% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 999 880 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.76% 49.05% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 583 610
10th Percentile £333 £322 £350
25th Percentile £447 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% +0.32%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £752
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.16%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (26.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.98%) SAP HCM
3 5 (5.81%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.33%) iTrent
4 2 (2.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.33%) SAP BRIM
4 2 (2.33%) SAP GRC
4 2 (2.33%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.33%) SAP MM
4 2 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.16%) Primavera
5 1 (1.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HR
5 1 (1.16%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.16%) SAP SD
5 1 (1.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.44%) Azure
2 13 (15.12%) SuccessFactors
3 7 (8.14%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) GCP
4 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.65%) SaaS
6 3 (3.49%) Boomi
7 2 (2.33%) AtomSphere
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.16%) Matillion
8 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Power BI
2 4 (4.65%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.49%) Metadata
4 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.16%) Big Data
5 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.16%) GIS
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) eggPlant
2 2 (2.33%) JMeter
2 2 (2.33%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.33%) Postman
2 2 (2.33%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.16%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.16%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (1.16%) Selenium
3 1 (1.16%) SilkTest
3 1 (1.16%) SOAtest
General
1 28 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Banking
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.65%) Billing
6 4 (4.65%) Local Government
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.33%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Law
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Marketing
9 1 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (18.60%) Architect
2 14 (16.28%) Consultant
3 13 (15.12%) Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Lead
4 11 (12.79%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (8.14%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.14%) SAP Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.81%) SAP Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Senior
8 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Cutover Manager
8 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) SAP Cutover Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Report Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Project Manager
10 2 (2.33%) SAP Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (9.30%) Middleware
3 7 (8.14%) SOAP
3 7 (8.14%) XML
4 5 (5.81%) .NET
4 5 (5.81%) JSON
5 4 (4.65%) OAuth
5 4 (4.65%) REST
5 4 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.49%) JWT
6 3 (3.49%) Kafka
6 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.49%) SAML
6 3 (3.49%) Web Services
7 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.33%) HTML
7 2 (2.33%) Node.js
7 2 (2.33%) XBRL
7 2 (2.33%) XSLT
8 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.81%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.49%) FMCG
3 3 (3.49%) Life Science
3 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.33%) IoT
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.16%) CMDB
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
1 3 (3.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) ERP
2 26 (30.23%) Migration
3 22 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.93%) Data Migration
5 14 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (15.12%) Data Modelling
6 13 (15.12%) Translating Business Requirements
7 12 (13.95%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.79%) Validation
9 10 (11.63%) Agile
9 10 (11.63%) Data Governance
9 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
10 9 (10.47%) Change Management
10 9 (10.47%) Project Management
11 8 (9.30%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (9.30%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.14%) Event-Driven
12 7 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.95%) SQL
2 6 (6.98%) Python
3 5 (5.81%) Java
4 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.16%) C#
6 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.16%) Korn
6 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Degree
4 4 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.65%) PMP
5 3 (3.49%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.33%) CAPM
6 2 (2.33%) CIPD
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CISM
7 1 (1.16%) CISSP
7 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) ISEB
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.98%) GDPR
3 5 (5.81%) PMO
4 3 (3.49%) GRC
4 3 (3.49%) QA
4 3 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.16%) PSD2
5 1 (1.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.33%) IAG
2 1 (1.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.16%) Control-M
2 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Oracle
2 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) Google
4 4 (4.65%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.65%) Workday
5 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
6 2 (2.33%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.16%) Adobe
7 1 (1.16%) Calypso
7 1 (1.16%) Kronos
7 1 (1.16%) Murex
7 1 (1.16%) OpenText
7 1 (1.16%) Palantir
7 1 (1.16%) Temenos
7 1 (1.16%) VMware